Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher (dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at)
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:02:07 +0200 (MET DST)

--snip/snip
> What parts of the filesystem needs to be accessed very often? I think, that placing var on a ramdisk, that is mirrored on the hd and is synced every 30 minutes, would be a good solution.
> I think, that we should add a sysrq key to save the ramdisk to the disk. Is there a similar project, that loads an image into a ramdisk at mount, and writes it back at unmount?

a nice thing for that would be to have unionfs (al viro seems to work on that?),
and mount a ramdisk ontop of your var directory (or shichever directory is
a hotspot. - or mount it over your whole harddrive, doing COW on the ramdisk.
and once the disk reaches a critical high-water-mark sync the whole set to
the underlaying "real" filesystem.

any comments?

tm

-- 
in some way i do, and in some way i don't.


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